2015 Sony World Photography Awards open for entries

The 2015 Sony
World Photography Awards, organised by the World Photography Organisation, are
now open for entries. Professional, amateur, youth and student photographers
from across the world can enter their best work for free at www.worldphoto.org. Photographers will compete for a range of cash
prizes and the latest cutting edge digital imaging equipment from Sony. Overall winners will be announced at a gala ceremony
held in London on 23 April 2015.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards

Since its launch in 2007, over 700,000 images from
230 countries have been submitted to the Sony World
Photography Awards. Seeking the very best in international contemporary
photography, the awards have established themselves as one of the world’s
leading photography competitions. The
most recent winner of the L’Iris d’Or/ Photographer of the Year title is
American photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for her series ‘Shane and Maggie’ a powerful
and
intimate examination of domestic violence as a process.

The winner of the 2015 L’Iris
d’Or/Photographer of the Year title and the Open Photographer of the Year will both receive
cash prizes. All category winners will receive the
latest digital imaging equipment from Sony, and the Student Focus winner will
receive a range of new, cutting edge Sony digital imaging equipment for his or
her university. Winning and shortlisted photographs will also be published in
the 2015 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book and exhibited at
Somerset House, London.

The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
include the following competitions:

·
Professional – 15
categories judged on a series of work

·
Open – 10
categories judged on a single image

·
Youth – three
categories for photographers under 20. Judged on a single image

The
Open and Youth competitions will close for entries at 23.59 GMT on Monday 5 January 2015 with the exception of the
Professional competition, which will close at 23.59 GMT on Thursday 8 January
2015. A list of categories can be found
in the notes to editors.

The
brief for the 2015 Student Focus competition is to shoot a single image that symbolises contemporary consumer culture. The image can be
sensationalist or low-key but it must be something the photographer
feels is a reflection of today’s society.
Entries to the Student Focus competition close on 6 December 2014.

Further details about the Sony World
Photography Awards and the World Photography Organisation can be found at www.worldphoto.org

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